"much less" meaning in English

See much less in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Conjunction

Head templates: {{en-con}} much less
  1. (idiomatic) Let alone; to say nothing of. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: let alone, not to mention Translations (let alone): نَاهِيكَ عَن (nāhīka ʕan) (Arabic), ne lavaran ket (Breton), 更不用說 (Chinese Mandarin), 更不用说 (gèng bùyòng shuō) (Chinese Mandarin), 何況 (Chinese Mandarin), 何况 (hékuàng) (Chinese Mandarin), vielä vähemmän (Finnish), nemhogy (Hungarian), meno che meno (Italian), 況してや (mashiteya) (Japanese), nie mówiąc już (o) (Polish), a co dopiero (Polish), a tym bardziej (Polish), nemai vorbind (Romanian), gun luaidh (Scottish Gaelic), än mindre (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-much_less-en-conj-82Q0Vi~z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Download JSON data for much less meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "much less",
      "name": "en-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxi",
          "text": "Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Let alone; to say nothing of."
      ],
      "id": "en-much_less-en-conj-82Q0Vi~z",
      "links": [
        [
          "Let alone",
          "let alone"
        ],
        [
          "to say nothing of",
          "to say nothing of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Let alone; to say nothing of."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let alone"
        },
        {
          "word": "not to mention"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "nāhīka ʕan",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "نَاهِيكَ عَن"
        },
        {
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "ne lavaran ket"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "更不用說"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gèng bùyòng shuō",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "更不用说"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "何況"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "hékuàng",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "何况"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "vielä vähemmän"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "nemhogy"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "meno che meno"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mashiteya",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "況してや"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "nie mówiąc już (o)"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "a co dopiero"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "a tym bardziej"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "nemai vorbind"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "gun luaidh"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "let alone",
          "word": "än mindre"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "much less"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "much less",
      "name": "en-con"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English conjunctions",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxi",
          "text": "Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Let alone; to say nothing of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Let alone",
          "let alone"
        ],
        [
          "to say nothing of",
          "to say nothing of"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Let alone; to say nothing of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "let alone"
    },
    {
      "word": "not to mention"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nāhīka ʕan",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "نَاهِيكَ عَن"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "ne lavaran ket"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "更不用說"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gèng bùyòng shuō",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "更不用说"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "何況"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hékuàng",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "何况"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "vielä vähemmän"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "nemhogy"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "meno che meno"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mashiteya",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "況してや"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "nie mówiąc już (o)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "a co dopiero"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "a tym bardziej"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "nemai vorbind"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "gun luaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "let alone",
      "word": "än mindre"
    }
  ],
  "word": "much less"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.